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Show The Salt Lake Tribune NATION Saturday, May 22, 1999 A5 School Shootings Show Quiet Students Can Snap Georgia shooter wasnot in an outcast group, could have used more powerful Weapons in his attackat school THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CONYERS, Ga he arrest of a quiet, churchgoing Boy Scout accused of shooting up his high school with weapons stolen from his stepfather's locked gun cabinet was a sharp reminderthat it’s not always the trench coat-wearing outcasts who commit violence. Thomas omon Jr., is charged with aggravat ed wounding six fellow Heritage High stu- dents. As more details about ording to Sheriff Jeff ington, xperts said Solomon — Thomas Solomon desperate cry for attention “Certainly he had the option and the weapon to do more dam: and in not doing that, what he of getting said Richard Gelles familyviolence at the University of Pennsylvania He knew he would get it Unlike Klebold and Harris. who killed 12 students and a lives, Solomon wasn't ostracized just because a particular child Writings by Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris — outsiders ostra- eized at Columbine High School — indicated that they wanted to dead, was considered important as investigators piece together what happened here — andas Americansdebatethetroubling issues of gun control and how youths involved in recent gun violence were able to obtain the firearms they used teacher before taking their own the sophomore emergedFriday, it became clear that he has little in common with thekillers in last month's Colorado school shoot ing. nagnum evolve Hevused 1b ould sitob his cehoommetes fuihonties said Friday The youth — whomstudents identified as Thon SolomonJr. — then sneakedthe rifle onto his into Heritage High School by concealing it in the leg of his baggy blue jeans, said Rockdale County Sheriff Jeff Wigington Therevolver was smuggledin a book bag, authorities said Theorigin of the weapons used in the Heritage shooting which occurred exactly one monthafter the shooting spree at Columbine High School inLittleton, Colo., that left 15 people him this week — was making a s doing was a w locked guncabinet toget the de- ribedas a typical teen who grew sullenafterhisgirlfriend dumped attention,” = & Guns Camefrom Locked Cabinet at Home The1 , banhighsc professor of child welfare and assault for School J to leave a trail of bodies behind e could have stolen several more erful pons from his step- said Tom Cummins week, and the night before the shooting he attended a Catholic youth-group meeting scribed as a clean-cut student after the breakup and tall ked of endinghislife or bringinga yn to 01. But no onetook him seri ously a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Emory Iniversity Hospital Solomon, called T.J., is de by the morepopular students This case is a reminder that isn't in some group ofalienated teens or doesn’t have two nos¢ rings or 15 tattoos doesn’t mean that there’s not a possibility t Friends said he became angry with average grades that had slipped recently. He went to church with his family every something tragic could happen kill as many people as possible and go downin a blazeofgore. 20% OFF ALL BEDS Solomon was a marksman with two deadly weapons 3 Magnum revolverand asawed-off rifle hidden in thelegsof his baggyjeans — and could have killed students, But he apparently aimed at thembelow the waist so he wouldonly wound them He wasjust trying to be heard and not trying to kill anybody, said Kent Cason, 19. “Two of my Curtis Compton/The Ass ated Press Ryan Rosa, a victim of the Heritage High Schoo! shooting, heads up the stairs on his way to a counseling sessionat the Heritage Hills Baptist Church in Rockdale County, Ga., Friday. friends saw him walking into the cafeteria and he was loading a gun. He told them tostaythere so they wouldn't get hurt, and then walked into the building.” And if Solomon really wanted Battle Brews Over Gun-Control Legislation KNIGHT-RIDDER NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON — three-way battle is shaping up in the House over the sameissue that snarled the Senatein testy debate the past week: gun control. Most Democrats and some Re- publicans seem willing to copy much of what the Senate adopted whenit passed a major juvenile- justice bill Thursday. Democratic leaders are pushing for a House vote as soon as next week. Republicans leaders such as Tom DeLay of Texas wantto put off a vote at least until next month, but Republican rank-and- file members are at odds over how far to go in imposing newre- strictions. Some are downright opposed to any additional controls; others are sympathetic to many of the same approaches as most Democrats. Hard-liners in each party meanwhile, appear content simply to demand either all or nothing — and take the issue to voters in next year’s elections. For them. the issue is seen as an opportunity to retain or seize control of the closely matched chamber — where Republicans hold a slim six-vote majority — in the elec: tions next year Many gun-control Democrats are encouragedby polls that show a majority of Americans support- WAT HEA wines ing stricter gun laws. On the other hand, many remember that the last time Congress passed major gun-control legislation — in 1994 — it ended up costing the seats of several House Democrats who were targeted for defeat by the National Rifle Association. 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